Student Journalist Fired Over Politically Incorrect Trayvon Martin Cartoon
(AmericanThinker.com) Tensions are simmering between liberal and conservative students at the University of Texas, Austin. At issue is a politically incorrect editorial cartoon in the student newspaper, The Daily Texan, lampooning the media's coverage of the Trayvon Martin case.
Student Stephanie Eisner, a sophomore, used to be a cartoonist at the newspaper, but she was fired for having drawn the cartoon. Her ouster followed protests from outraged liberal students, many of them blacks and Hispanics, who accused editorial board members of being racists for having allowed the cartoon. The Daily Texan subsequently pulled the cartoon, titled "The Media," from its website and it apologized profusely for publishing it.
Now, Eisner and conservative students are fighting back by circulating a petition: It demands that Eisner get her job back.
Her cartoon depicts a woman reading a children's book to a shocked little girl. The book's title: "Trevyon Martin and The Case of Yellow Journalism."
In a corner of the cartoon is an excerpt from the book: "AND THEN the BIG BAD WHITE man killed the handsome, sweet, innocent COLORED BOY." Big arrows point to the words "white" and "colored," which also are boldly underlined -- reflecting the media's breathless bad white/good black storyline.
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Student Stephanie Eisner, a sophomore, used to be a cartoonist at the newspaper, but she was fired for having drawn the cartoon. Her ouster followed protests from outraged liberal students, many of them blacks and Hispanics, who accused editorial board members of being racists for having allowed the cartoon. The Daily Texan subsequently pulled the cartoon, titled "The Media," from its website and it apologized profusely for publishing it.
Now, Eisner and conservative students are fighting back by circulating a petition: It demands that Eisner get her job back.
Her cartoon depicts a woman reading a children's book to a shocked little girl. The book's title: "Trevyon Martin and The Case of Yellow Journalism."
In a corner of the cartoon is an excerpt from the book: "AND THEN the BIG BAD WHITE man killed the handsome, sweet, innocent COLORED BOY." Big arrows point to the words "white" and "colored," which also are boldly underlined -- reflecting the media's breathless bad white/good black storyline.
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Doesn't she know racism only goes one way, silly girl!
ReplyDeleteWe don't have an unbiased media. The alphabet soup known as reporting is nothing more than a Socialist Propaganda machine designed to make "The One" look good to all his worshipers. Now we all are in danger of imprisonment if we speak out against him.
ReplyDeleteComes the Revolution to depose the Tyrant Dictator!!
After I continued to the whole story and saw the cartoon, the problem became obvious. The cartoon was not in any way racist; it was a critique of a racist media, where the focus was set in the original report from the New York Slimes: "An African-American youth was shot and killed by a WHITE Hispanic."
ReplyDeleteYou can't get any more racist than that.
I'd like to see the cartoon. A picture is worth a thousand words. For the sake of freedom of speech, the image should be made available.
ReplyDeleteRead the full Story to see the cartoon in question
DeleteWHAT ELSE WOULD WE EXPECT FROM THESES SCHOOLS RUN BY COMMIES
ReplyDeleteMany Americans are showing they do not believe in Freedom of Speech. The basic Freedoms will be taken away.
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